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What If the Quetzalcoatlus Never Went Extinct?

What If | April 12, 2026



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A terrifying shadow ripples over the city… as a gigantic prehistoric beast soars over the towers, moving faster than the cars on the freeway… hunting. And it’s not alone. It hunts in a pack. This was… and IS Quetzalcoatlus. Because today, we’re bringing this horrifying creature back from extinction. How exactly did Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar get mixed up in all this? Hold on for that.

Now, what exactly is Quetzalcoatlus? Because I know what you’re thinking… that thing looks a lot like one of your favourite dinosaurs, the pterodactyl. But Quetzalcoatlus isn’t a dinosaur at all. OR a pterodactyl. This enormous flying creature is what we now refer to as a pterosaur, and that means… it’s a reptile. A big one.

00:00 What If the Quetzalcoatlus Never Went Extinct?
01:09 Cretaceous Period
11:34 Escobar and The Hippos Gambit
13:27 Present Time

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  1. @carlosvillanueva8530

    April 12, 2026 at 8:53 am

    Thanksgiving dinner is going to get a lot better, you won't be able to talk across the table without using facetime. The wing sampler is also going to take a bit longer and cost a little more, you may want to call ahead.

  2. @errarehumanumest3810

    April 12, 2026 at 8:53 am

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  3. @paulruano1903

    April 12, 2026 at 8:53 am

    Welll….

    The asteroid hitting the eartyh and burned out most of the forrests on the planet…. also reduced oxygen levels on earth from 30% to only 21%.

    With so low oxygen levels as we have now (21%), it would make it much harder for creatures to maintain such big postures.

    So if a dinosaurs had been able to survive on some island all this time? It would evoluntarly shrunk in size from being enourmoys dinisaurs to merely at max Elephant size. Most would be around rhino, tigers, etc sizes.

    Even insects could be over a meter in size in dinosaur era.

    Oxygen levels do matter… alot.

  4. @LazyDayz0415

    April 12, 2026 at 8:53 am

    If it wasn't extinct, we'd think it was amazing, but the first time it ate a human we'd wipe them out in less than two years. We must ensure that human, not reptile, is the dominant species on this planet. There can be only one!

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